Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Procurement and Supply Chain Manager - Sector

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The Procurement and Supply Chain Management function is responsible for the interface with third‑party organisations who support our business. They support project delivery teams across the sectors to ensure the strategic direction is identified and delivered. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the Integrated Transport sector, driving efficiency, sustainability, and innovation within the procurement and supply chain functions.

The role of the Sector Procurement and Supply Chain (P&SC) Manager is to lead project subcontract procurement and be an advisor for project stakeholders along with post‑contract award Supply Chain Management and contribute to the development and deployment of direct Category Strategies for group business needs. Operating within the sector P&SC team, working closely with the project leads, Sector Head of P&SC and other members of the P&SC management team.

You are responsible for ensuring that your sector P&SC strategy is deployed and implemented, balancing and optimising both the operational requirements of our projects and the strategic goals of our Group objectives. Procurement and Supply Chain Managers should have impeccable stakeholder management skills and be a proactive team‑player with a solution‑focused mindset.

• Delivering Procurement (Pre‑Contract) & Supply Chain Management (Post‑Contract) across their sector, providing direction and support in the process. This will include collaborating seamlessly with the pre‑construction estimating team and the post‑award commercial team under our One Team, One Costain vision.
• Ability to utilise the Procurement Process to enable ECI, guiding the team on the decision‑making criteria such as maturity of the design, preservation of commercial tension, likely benefits realisation pipeline, opportunity to secure scarce resource, relationship with the proposed ECI 2‑stage Subcontractor and the ability to take a recommendation through The Costain Way gated governance.
• Project management and procurement to deliver our category strategy requirements. Project management of subcontract procurement activities, delivering predictable best‑in‑class outcomes which enable the project team to meet all key dates and milestones, whilst delivering high forecast accuracy.
• Ensuring a robust and structured supply chain exists to service the requirements of the projects / frameworks fully complying with the How‑to‑Buy Process. Feeding into both the sectoral and Group Strategic, Preferred and Approved Supply Chain Segmentation model.
• Enabling the drive towards Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), including but not limited to local Small to Medium‑size Enterprise (SME) engagement, delivering Social Impact, as well as Net Zero.
• Promote collaboration between the business and the supply chain to unlock value through innovation and best practice where appropriate using the principles of ISO
  44001 or P13 principles.
• Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders to democratise the procurement process, our strategic approach and governance, unlocking Value for Money across our portfolio of work.
• Develop relationships with client’s Supply Chain and Procurement teams, participating in their initiatives to assist them in achieving their goals, maximising stakeholder engagement with external stakeholders to deliver outcomes.
• Ability to utilise both strategic and operational procurement approaches to drive appropriate risk allocation looking at this through both an operational and commercial lens driving cost‑avoidance.
• Experience in facilitating/co‑ordinating the development of exemplar subcontract scoping documents, reviewing this documentation via a commercial lens with the ability to constructively challenge subcontract scoping gaps – encouraging exemplar specification.
• Ability to leverage operational procurement and subcontract practises that keep disallowed costs to a minimum, with a small delta between the normalised quote and the outturn cost,…